I'm still enjoying Batman, and while Nightwing's lost some steam since the DotF tie-in, I'm still enjoying it. Batwoman lost a LOT of steam for a while, but it's been fantastic the past 4 or 5 issues. I also like Talon, though it's one of my least favorite books and might be dropped. I'm not sure.

I am digging the current Batwoman arc so much right now. I'm really curious to see what's going to happen with the DEO forcing her into a confrontation with Batman and Bette's getting ready to help get Beth back from the DEO...

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I keep hearing good things about Detective. If I can drop another title for it, I should probably give it a shot. What's the best starting point for the title?

I am digging the current Batwoman arc so much right now. I'm really curious to see what's going to happen with the DEO forcing her into a confrontation with Batman and Bette's getting ready to help get Beth back from the DEO...

For me it's been hitting them out of the park since the second-to-last issue of the Medusa story line. The only exception was the Killer Croc issue, but that was mostly because I'm digging the current story line and that was an interruption.

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A new arc just started in last months issue

Hmmm. Does it play off of anything that's come before or is it a clean slate?

For me it's been hitting them out of the park since the second-to-last issue of the Medusa story line. The only exception was the Killer Croc issue, but that was mostly because I'm digging the current story line and that was an interruption.

I've honestly been loving every single issue of the series myself. It's pretty much the one comic book i look forward to most of all each month especially from DC

I dug the Killer Croc issue because while it did interrupt the main story it was nice to see Maggie get to be so bad ass in it

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Hmmm. Does it play off of anything that's come before or is it a clean slate?

I've been begging for a Kyle Rayner book since forever, but I couldn't bring myself to read it. The whole raindbow corps angle is great world building, but it's been the sole focus of the Green Lantern books like five years straight--I desperately need a break from it and couldn't read another book about it. It's like if you read a hundred issues of Batman made up entirely Ra's Al Ghul stories.

I also wouldn't mind a GL book set primarily on Earth. I've seen a lot of GLs duke it out against the empty backdrop of space over the past few years--and they bounce around so much it's really hard to give a crap about the setting. Even if it's not on Earth, I'd like to see a book plant it's feet somewhere. Just not Oa.

They barely have any lesbian characters to begin with, I don't want to see one of the few they do have killed off. I don't want to see any of their lgbt characters killed off

Scandal, Knockout, Renee Montoya, Batwoman, Maggie Sawyer, Lightning Lass, Shrinking Violet, Sarah Rainmaker, Grace Choi, Thunder, Holly Robinson....DC does have a handful to where you can spare at least one to have a meaningful death.

I haven't been reading Batwoman for a while, so maybe my info is out of date, but killing the love interest is so played out at this point I think it would be much more poignant to have Maggie leave Kate over the complications created by her double life. Kate is troubled, that affects a relationship.

That's a pretty common cliche as well (for Bruce Wayne) but still... Comics need to look really closely at how they treat death. It's become out of whack. Matt Fraction once said that death for superheroes isn't about dying, really, it's about escaping death--which I think is interesting, but overplayed. It loses meaning when you do it every week.

Meanwhile, for supporting characters like Maggie (or even Damian, to an extent) it's become a lazy crutch for making sure things stay the same (characters remain unattached, families don't grow, etc.) and to fuel the next round of angst in the stories. You can accomplish these things more subtly than by taking an axe to characters. Death is an important tool in fiction, but, come on, you've got a whole toolbox.